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Re: lang attribute for foreign words found in Merriam Webster's dictionary?

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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 22, 2015 8:10AM

Hi Birkir,

Thanks so much for mentioning that with the emails, I never would have
thought about it!

So how could one solve that issue of an English text that is made with a
French default regional/language setting?

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> While in Texas, order biscuits, none of that French/Canadian French
> fancy pants stuff (.. the exception being, of course, if having
> breakfast with Denis Boudreau(. ;)
>
> I have had to turn language detection off in my screen readers
> actually, because I frequently receive emails from my colleagues in
> the European Blind Union technology working groups. These emails are
> written in English but composed using their mail client with its
> default regional/language setting.
> So usually I get email written in English with language tags set to
> French, Spanish or German.
> My screen reader bravely starts reading it, but it is completely
> unintelligible.
> I have mastered the art of using an English screen reader to read
> Icelandic text (I prefer it, even if Icelandic has some quality TTS
> choices), but that took years of practice.
>
>
>
>
> On 4/22/15, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > On 22/04/2015 14:29, Moore,Michael (DARS) wrote:
> >> Another thing to keep in mind is that when you use a screen reader you
> get
> >> used to the way it butchers certain words so when we cleverly trick the
> >> screen reader into pronouncing something correctly we are delivering
> >> unexpected behavior.
> >
> > Insert joke here about the inability of most English/American speakers
> > to pronounce "niche" correctly ("neesh" instead of "nitch")...
> >
> > P
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